Teaser: The Compromises of Al Levitt

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Speaker 2: You're on the verge of being hired as a screenwriter and you get drafted, right, what happens?

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Speaker 3: Then?

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Speaker 2: So was the only one in Los Angeles that sent people out of Los Angeles for the physical, that put me in a bus, sent me to Fresno with a group of others from that draft board for my physical and then back. I mean it was really insane. And then when I went into the Army, I was stationed at Culver City at what was familiarly known as Fort Roach for year and a half. You know about Fort Roach, I assume Herod Studios. It was the Howard Studios that were taken over by the government for the First Motion Picture Unit.

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Speaker 1: The First Motion Picture Unit was part of the Army Air Forces during the Second World War. They made training films and newsreels.

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Speaker 3: She was a B twenty nine the Superport, with twenty two hundred horsepower in each of four engines, with a fuel capacity equal to that of a railroad tank car, a tail that climbed two stories into the air, a body longer than a Corvette.

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Speaker 1: Avid listeners of revisionist history may not just recognize that voice, but the very clip run of Reagan narrated many of these films. Red loving al Levitt and Red Baiting run of Reagan were actually co workers.

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Speaker 2: Every day for a year and a half, I would see Nan, then called Reagan who arrived at the post. He arrived there before I did, but he arrived from a cavalry outfit wearing jod present a campaign hat, and nobody could take him seriously. From then on he was laughingstock.

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